What Makes a Wind Turbine Break?

The video, What makes a wind turbine break? NREL’s drivetrain experts want to know, from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) investigates the turbine operational conditions most likely to cause drivetrain failures. NREL recently installed a new gearbox and main bearing in the U.S. Department of Energy-owned General Electric 1.5-megawatt SLE turbine.Posted June 5, 2018

Alaska: An Energy Frontier

Posted May 29, 2018

What Will Happen during an Earthquake?

A new simulation from Lawrence Livermore provides the highest level of detail ever achieved when simulating what might happen in the
wake of a Hayward fault earthquake.Posted May 8, 2018

Removing Radioactive Material from Near the Columbia River

Removing radioactive material from near the Columbia River, from the Hanford Site showsThe U.S. Department of Energy and CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company workers successfullycomplete an assessment to allow them to receive and store highly radioactive material, called sludge, onHanford’s Central Plateau, removing it away from a basin near the Columbia River.Posted April 16, 2018

Computer simulations unlock the secrets of antibiotic resistance

Computer simulations unlock the secrets of antibiotic resistance, from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) explains a strategy to combat antibiotic
resistant bacteria, theoretical biologists at LANL are simulating how some microbes use protein structures to flush out the drugs before they kill the bacteria.
At an atom level, the simulations show the efflux pumps in action, giving researchers a new tool for figuring out how to disable the pumps. That would allow
some currently powerless antibiotics to once again cure a range of public health threats.Posted April 12, 2018

The Dawn of an Optical RevolutionThe Dawn of an Optical Revolution, from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) shows by combining optics design andadditive manufacturing technology, LLNL creates a new class of functionally graded optical materials.Posted March 20, 2018

Nuclear Science User Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

As a partner with the Nuclear Science User Facility (NSUF), Oak Ridge National Laboratory provides fully-funded access to the capabilities and infrastructure
necessary for irradiation and post-irradiation examination of nuclear fuels and materials. Researchers from universities, industry and national labs are invited to
submit proposals through a competitive, peer-reviewed process.Posted March 5, 2018

Why the Flu Can Kill a Healthy Person so QuicklyThe flu epidemic is three times worse than it was last year, and every part of the continental U.S. is under siege. NBC News’ Anne Thompson sits down with a doctor to find out what’s made the flu so severe.Posted January 29, 2018

Turning Ocean Water into Drinking Water
The video, Turning Ocean Water into Drinking Water, from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shows how tiny carbon nanotubes could be the future
of drinking water. Livermore researchers are finding ways to make it cheaper and easier to desalinate ocean water, making it safe to drink.Posted January 10, 2018

What's that Noise

The video, What’s that Noise?, from Los Alamos National Laboratory shows by listening to the acoustic signal emitted by a laboratory-created earthquake, a computer science approach using machine learning can predict the time remaining before a fault fails.Posted December 20, 2017

From science fiction to real science

This video, published by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shows how scientists found a way to combine laser beams. The way the Death Star works in the fictional Star Wars universe has long been dismissed by scientists as something that defies our physical reality, but researchers at Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility have found a way to successfully combine laser beams using plasma for the first time EVERPosted October 26, 2017

Parker THM Analyzer

This video, published by Sandia National Laboratories provides a overview on an easy-to-operate, cost-effective, tabletop purge-and-trap gas chromatograph that ensures
safe drinking water and monitors disinfection by-product formation at water utilities in real-time, without sample preparation or off-site analysis.Posted July 10, 2017

Science in 60 - Simulating Flames Helps Tame Future Wildfires

produced by DOE LANL

This video provides a 60 second overview of DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory's work regarding the interaction between fire and the atmosphere through computer modeling. The behavior of wildfire is being simulated through the computer program, FIRETEC which involves multi-phase fluid dynamics, turbulence and high performance computing. This work will assist in understanding how fire behaves and refining faster ready tools in fire events.

Dangerously Close: Explosion in West, Texas

produced by the US Chemical Safety Board (CSB)

This video provides an overview of the April 17, 2013 fire and explosion at the West Fertilizer Company in West, Texas, which resulted in 15 fatalities, 260 injuries, and widespread community damage. The deadly fire and explosion occurred when about thirty tons of fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate exploded after being heated by a fire at the storage and distribution facility.